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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney heads right. let's play "hardball." good evening, i am chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. mitt romney. i remember when george wallace said there's not a dime's worth of difference between the republicans and democrats. well, today for those paying attention, there's not a dime's worth of difference between mitt romney and the republican fringe. sarah palin accused the president of palling with terrorists. romney accuses obama of sympathizing with the attackers in the mid east. romney not only exploits the language of the right, he is enjoying it. birthers say obama doesn't belong with us, romney says he sympathizes with muslim killers. the state of kansas is deciding whether to let obama's name appear on the ballot. birthers are still at it. kansas secretary of state wants more evidence of the president's legitimacy to run. his birth certificate is not apparently enough. newt gingrich talks of good stamp president, and one republican state after another tries to limit minority voting, all maki
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney heads right. let's play "hardball." good evening, i am chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. mitt romney. i remember when george wallace said there's not a dime's worth of difference between the republicans and democrats. well, today for those paying attention, there's not a dime's worth of difference between mitt romney and the republican fringe. sarah palin accused the president of...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. tonight, president obama leads for the search of killers for justice for the murder of four americans in the line of duty. mitt romney, meanwhile, continues his desperate attempt to justify his effort to exploit chris stevens and the others. for the critics of romney's supporters, what made him do it? the hawkish urge to address the neocon handlers or could it be both? president obama benefits from the national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals. his rival is surrounded by campaign hot shots imagine trying to repeat or to reap on the spot joining us is nia-malika henderson. let's listen to the president. >> what i want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow americans to justice. i want people around the world to hear me, to all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the worl
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. tonight, president obama leads for the search of killers for justice for the murder of four americans in the line of duty. mitt romney, meanwhile, continues his desperate attempt to justify his effort to exploit chris stevens and the others. for the critics of romney's supporters, what made him do it? the hawkish urge to address the neocon...
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i'l sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> breaking away, let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, i want you to watch and listen to the next few minutes here. it may be the most important tiamn.u seand hear in this it's a sharp taste of what's beg used to defeat president obama. newt gingrich. what if obama is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand kenyon antiolonial behavior can you begin to piece together his actions. d -- >> wou liktoe hish s h ife,au ifca the pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. >> and -- >> i wish this president would love how to be an american. >> and -- >> no e's ever aedo see birtceificat >> and this tweet, obama sympathizes with attackers in egypt. and then last night -- >> he's not a real president. >> tonight on "hardball" we show you the true ugly campaign being run against the president. even in the face of this ugly attack, there are two big new poll numbers running in his
i'l sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> breaking away, let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, i want you to watch and listen to the next few minutes here. it may be the most important tiamn.u seand hear in this it's a sharp taste of what's beg used to defeat president obama. newt gingrich. what if obama is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand kenyon antiolonial behavior can you...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right. now. >>> romney pummels libya. let's start "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the horrible story of the courageous diplomat in libya. he acted heroically in overthrowing lives during ka dauf fee. hours before the killing, romney issued a statement accusing president obama of having sympathized with those making the attacks and called it disgraceful. reince priebus went further, tweeting toll a similar attack on cairo. this echos past attacks from the right. what is new on the statement in libya is the wildness. the president never said he sympathized with the crowds in libya and egypt. mark halperin and howard fineman are political analysts for msnbc. how did romney get in this mess? look at the timeline of events. it started yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time, noon in cairo. that's when the american embassy put out a statement saying it condemns the statements by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims. at about noon, the wall was breached and ripped down
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right. now. >>> romney pummels libya. let's start "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the horrible story of the courageous diplomat in libya. he acted heroically in overthrowing lives during ka dauf fee. hours before the killing, romney issued a statement accusing president obama of having sympathized with those making the attacks and called it disgraceful. reince priebus went...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> sweet and sour politics. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews from washington. let me start with this tonight, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. you can lead a party to tampa but you can't make them like them. talk about a loveless marriage, this thick in tampa had the look of a shotgun marriage. is that any reason to make some guy president of the united states? is it. there's a reason obama got a bounce and romney did a thud. one guy people really love in charlotte giving the speeches of their lives, bill and michelle and deval patrick and castro. remember what romney got? chris christie up there giving testimonials to themselves. they barely got around to paying for their supper they were so full of themselves. romney has had two chippies, going over to get acquainted with the brits and going to tampa to get the kudos. in both cases he ended up laying more eggs than the easter bunny but people like the easter bunny. joining me is howard fineman and jim vande
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> sweet and sour politics. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews from washington. let me start with this tonight, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. you can lead a party to tampa but you can't make them like them. talk about a loveless marriage, this thick in tampa had the look of a shotgun marriage. is that any reason to make some guy president of the united...
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i'm al sharpton. ardbl" starts right now. >>> romney losing his bearings. les play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'chris matthewsn washington. let me start with this. why do we have such long campaigns for president? because it's a tryout a chance to not just kick the tires, not just to look under the hood, but to actually take the car out for a drive. over the past several weeks this country has experienced what lbeinarh mitt romney. we've felt the swerves, the sudden shifts, the abrupt stops and reverses, the reckless changes of lanes, the slipping and the sliding. there's more road ahead, of course, including three debates, but we're getting a sense that this guy doesn't know exactly where he's going or even on how to drive this car. and the big question is, why is he having such a tough time? why does he seem, dare we say it, confused? could it be because he doesn't know where he's trying to take cahesnnoer wants to go? as david axelrod said, campaigns arlike an mri for the soul, whoever you are, eventually peopleind t. joining me now are the two men wh
i'm al sharpton. ardbl" starts right now. >>> romney losing his bearings. les play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'chris matthewsn washington. let me start with this. why do we have such long campaigns for president? because it's a tryout a chance to not just kick the tires, not just to look under the hood, but to actually take the car out for a drive. over the past several weeks this country has experienced what lbeinarh mitt romney. we've felt the swerves, the...
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"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, oops, he did it again. there's a new secret mitt romney video that surfaced today. this one comes from his years running bain capital and mr. romney's language in the video, once again, just leaves you scratching your head. the same man who said corporations are
"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, oops, he did it again. there's a new secret mitt romney video that surfaced today. this one comes from his years running bain capital and mr. romney's language in the video, once again, just leaves you scratching your head. the same man who said corporations are
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> thank you, charlotte let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this impressive week in charlotte. there may be no explanation for it, but i've never seen such excitement in a political convention. it was in the faces of the people who stood at the edge of our stage, the loud roars when one of us said something about president obama, their deep concentration watching him. on our big screen as he spoke last night. i don't know what this means for november. we're going to get serious economic reports between now and then and we'll know if the economy's slowing down or beginning to perk. the news we got this morning wasn't satisfactory by anyone's standards. but the real question is how the voters look at this election. will they view it as a choice between two candidates or as an up or down referendum on president obama. a brutally tough standard by the way so soon after the financial crash o
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> thank you, charlotte let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this impressive week in charlotte. there may be no explanation for it, but i've never seen such excitement in a political convention. it was in the faces of the people who stood at the edge of our stage, the loud roars when one of us said something about president obama, their deep...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts now. >>> romney fails to bounce. democrats celebrate. let's play "hardball." >>> what a crowd. i'm chris matthews in charlotte. site of the democratic national convention. let me start with something so experience to believe. the difference between democrats and republicans when they get together. last week in tampa, it had the feel of a business convention. today in charlotte, it was like a labor day picnic. one reason for the upbeat mood, the ballyhoo spike in the polls. the bounce that mitt romney was to get from the convention didn't happen. could it be that the convention based on grim resolution lacked joy. was it the lack of goodwilled humanity that kept it from soaring? could it be that wood doesn't bounce? i was in my early teens when i noticed the difference between these parties. at the democrat's convention in 1960 someone always yelled could the delegates clear the aisles. no one did. i heard people at the republican convention to tell people to take their seats and they did. republicans are more disciplined or how you view
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts now. >>> romney fails to bounce. democrats celebrate. let's play "hardball." >>> what a crowd. i'm chris matthews in charlotte. site of the democratic national convention. let me start with something so experience to believe. the difference between democrats and republicans when they get together. last week in tampa, it had the feel of a business convention. today in charlotte, it was like a labor day picnic. one reason...
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i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> can't wait for the debate. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. let me start with the big one, next week's first huge debate between barack obama and mitt romney. no matter what we say now trying to figure this thing out, it's impossible to know what it will feel like when these two men meet, shake hands, and take their positions. the studio where we do "hardball" in washington was the site of the second great debate between richard nixon and john f. kennedy. right before that debate the kennedy brothers arrived to discover something weird had happened. the temperature was meat locker level. so cold they couldn't believe it, and they knew why. kennedy's television adviser went racing to the basement and found nixon's guy standing watch on the thermostat. nixon had sweated in that first debate, and it cost him. this time the nixon people were intent on freezing the room so cold that nixon couldn't sweat at all. well, after a standoff in that basement in our headquarters and
i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> can't wait for the debate. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. let me start with the big one, next week's first huge debate between barack obama and mitt romney. no matter what we say now trying to figure this thing out, it's impossible to know what it will feel like when these two men meet, shake hands, and take their positions. the studio where we do...
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"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, can we predict who will win the election? and to help answer the question, i want to introduce fake governor romney and fake president obama. welcome to "politicsnation" and great to see you. folks, 39 days till the election and there's one way to predict who will win
"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, can we predict who will win the election? and to help answer the question, i want to introduce fake governor romney and fake president obama. welcome to "politicsnation" and great to see you. folks, 39 days till the election and there's one way to predict who will win
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i'm al sharpton, hardball starts right now. a >>> romney's mad men. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews down in washington wishing everyone celebrating rosh hashanah is happy new year. let me start tonight with the danger of running for president without knowing why. that appears to be mitt romney's situation or predicament. it's the reason his campaign is out of whack. president obama was talking to a wealthy group of supporters, talking about the other america, the one that obama was serving when he dumped the work requirement for welfare. what does it tell us that romney not only runs tv ads but uses it to back up his wealthy contributors? the poor of this country are just freeloaders off society, the bulk of the political support is made up of such freeloaders? david corn is author of "showdown" which comes out tomorrow and joan walsh is author of "what's the matter with white people." let's watch, listen, and decide. >> all anybody said was, don't worry how do we convince everybody that they have to take care of themse
i'm al sharpton, hardball starts right now. a >>> romney's mad men. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews down in washington wishing everyone celebrating rosh hashanah is happy new year. let me start tonight with the danger of running for president without knowing why. that appears to be mitt romney's situation or predicament. it's the reason his campaign is out of whack. president obama was talking to a wealthy group of supporters, talking...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the tin man. let's play "hardball"! ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in sunny philadelphia. let me start tonight with this rare moment when you get to look behind the curtain. remember in "the wizard of oz" when we saw the man actually doing the talking? well, this is the week we heard from the real oz, mitt romney, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we're told. but how can we ignore the real mitt when he says half the country he wants to run is filled with beggars, moochers, loafers, moochers, people who don't want to work, want the better off to give them breakfast in bed. he's the real willard who wants him to give him control of the country. and that's our topic tonight, the man behind the curtain who thinks compassionate conservative is yesterday's magic act and wants to crack down on the little people big time, at least that's the way he talks when he's fobbing for money down in tony boca raton. howard fineman is an msnbc correspondent. cynthia tucker is a syndicated columnist. first, brand ne
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the tin man. let's play "hardball"! ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in sunny philadelphia. let me start tonight with this rare moment when you get to look behind the curtain. remember in "the wizard of oz" when we saw the man actually doing the talking? well, this is the week we heard from the real oz, mitt romney, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we're told. but how can we...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the no-nothings. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with the bone-headed poll numbers just in. i'm not talking about the arithmetic. i'm talking about what it says about some voters out there, especially on the right. catch this. a third of conservative republicans are convinced that the president is a muslim. a third. less than half believe in global warming. only 2 out of 5 in ohio, for example, believed he was born in the u.s. the rest are to one degree or the other birthers. and just to make you feel a little better about that and let you know how low information these voters are on the right, catch this. two-thirds of republicans say there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq when our troops got there in 2003. do they have amnesia? have they been buried in their basements the last nine years? what explains this many people being so out to lunch they don't even remember how "w," remember him, he was president, blew his whole reason for sendi
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the no-nothings. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with the bone-headed poll numbers just in. i'm not talking about the arithmetic. i'm talking about what it says about some voters out there, especially on the right. catch this. a third of conservative republicans are convinced that the president is a muslim. a third. less than half believe in global...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> caught. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. let me start tonight with, if i were a rich man. ♪ dumb. it's one thing to be rich and have the majority of voters convinced you're out to help the rich. is there anything dumber to be caught pandering to your fellow rich? hey, buddy, give me $50,000 i'll give y dinner and tell you what i really think. what does mitt romney really think about that 47% out there, the ones he'll never catch at a party like this? he called them a bunch of free loaders who want breakfast in bed and who want people at the 50k dinners to foot the bill. tonight the morning after, and yes, we've got more tapes of that infamous dinner to remember. that tony get together where the republican nominee for president of the united states shared his deepest beliefs about the two kinds of people in this country, those who give, like him, and those who take and loaf and vote for obama. joining me now is david corn with mother jones the a
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> caught. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. let me start tonight with, if i were a rich man. ♪ dumb. it's one thing to be rich and have the majority of voters convinced you're out to help the rich. is there anything dumber to be caught pandering to your fellow rich? hey, buddy, give me $50,000 i'll give y dinner and tell you what i really think. what does mitt...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney versus ryan, the divorce. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with mr. romney's divorce. why did he pick paul ryan for his running mate? certainly not for better or worse. mitt spends his days and nights acting as if he's out there all alone, that he never hooked up with ryan if the first place. i get it. romney doesn't want to get dragged down by his political mate's push for getting rid of medicare. he acts like ryan has no hold on him, but it's not the way it works. romney has slowly gotten the word that the voter out there thought the two had things worked out, that romney and ryan were in this thing together. well, they're not. romney is dying. he can't stand being tied to ryan, and all that budget cutting baggage of his. for his part, ryan is feeling the taint of having a running mate who is unwilling to stand with him, unwilling to be his kind of politician. a conviction politician. so trouble in paradise. mitt's dying to be single again, so is rya
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney versus ryan, the divorce. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with mr. romney's divorce. why did he pick paul ryan for his running mate? certainly not for better or worse. mitt spends his days and nights acting as if he's out there all alone, that he never hooked up with ryan if the first place. i get it. romney doesn't want to get dragged down...
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"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks chris and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, they are losing it. and it's not just mitt romney. the evidence is growing that republicans have a much bigger problem on their hands than any one candidate, even the candidate for the white house. instead, we're seeing a rejection of the entire world view. your on your own philosophy that says, if you're down on your luck, then you are out of luck. we'll be talking about it throughout the show tonight. but we start with a new poll out of ohio that is
"politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks chris and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, they are losing it. and it's not just mitt romney. the evidence is growing that republicans have a much bigger problem on their hands than any one candidate, even the candidate for the white house. instead, we're seeing a rejection of the entire world view. your on your own philosophy that says, if you're down on your luck, then you are out of luck. we'll be...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball "starts right now. >>> the missing republican letter, "w." let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in dallas. let me start with this. there was a missing letter from the republican convention, stationery, missing from their lips. "w." you want to hear it louder? "w." he was the guy riding in the car with him when barack obama went to take the oath, the guy who left him with a stock market crashing through the floor. a 4,000 point drop in a year heading toward a 7500 point drop by the following march. "w." he left the new president with a jobless number that spiked over 10% by the following year, a financial crash so bad that the republican candidate for president in 2008 asked for time out to deal with it. a calamity outmatched only by the great crash in '29. so ask it yourself, is this country better off in the direction "w" was taking us, really? we'll get to that in a minute. first, we have new poll numbers in the presidential race. let's check the "hardball" scoreboard. here it is according to the new "washington post"
i'm al sharpton. "hardball "starts right now. >>> the missing republican letter, "w." let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in dallas. let me start with this. there was a missing letter from the republican convention, stationery, missing from their lips. "w." you want to hear it louder? "w." he was the guy riding in the car with him when barack obama went to take the oath, the guy who left him with a stock...
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i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney wobbles. let's play "hardball." >>> let me start tonight with this. mitt romney, wobbler. day after day, wobbly massachusetts senator, scott brown and linda mcmann and george allen. and now nevada senator dean hower have gone wobbly, refuse to stand with mitt romney. the one who tells rich people the rest of the country is a bunch of loafers, free-load others, bums. last night any auto wobbler showed up, mitt romney himself. he suddenly declared he's changed his mind on the whole 47% business. that he's now proud of being the grandfather of obamacare, proud to say he's for same-sex couples having partner rights and no way he runs to run those 12 million immigrants out of the country. how scared is this candidate he's now turning tail on so much of what he has been standing for. is the man we caught behind the curtain suddenly afraid of the script he's been reading? is this the etch-a-sketch moment we were warned was coming, the moment of moral meltdown? i'm this afternoon, guys, this afternoon
i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> romney wobbles. let's play "hardball." >>> let me start tonight with this. mitt romney, wobbler. day after day, wobbly massachusetts senator, scott brown and linda mcmann and george allen. and now nevada senator dean hower have gone wobbly, refuse to stand with mitt romney. the one who tells rich people the rest of the country is a bunch of loafers, free-load others, bums. last night any auto wobbler showed...